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Between OPW and GSoC, 2013 Will Be a Summer of Awesome
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:date: 2013-05-27 17:45
:author: Christopher Allan Webber

Earlier I wrote about how this year we are
`participating in Google Summer of Code and GNOME Outreach Program for Women </news/opw-gsoc-2013.html>`_.
Well, we just got announced all the students we're accepting.  It's
quite a few in quite a few awesome areas!  In alphabetical order:

 - Aditi Mittal (mentored by Sebastian Spaeth) will be building a new
   media type for... blogging!  By doing blogging as a media type we
   should be able to compete with media/blogging hybrid systems like
   Tumblr without compromising on MediaGoblin's core design.

 - Emily O'Leary (mentored by me, Christopher Allan Webber) will be
   improving our test suite and helping with bug triage.

 - Jessica Tallon (mentored by Joar Wandborg) will be
   building... that's right!... federation support for MediaGoblin
   through the
   `Pump API <https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md>`_.

   Jessica has a rare hyper-qualification for this, already working on
   a `PyPump library <https://github.com/xray7224/PyPump>`_.  We're
   already talking about various improvements to that library's API to
   make it fit well into MediaGoblin and to ease federation for other
   systems too!

 - Natalie Foust-Pilcher (mentored by Aeva Palecek through Outreach
   Program for Women) will be working on building us an awesome new
   administrative interface!

 - Praveen Kumar (mentored by me, Christopher Allan Webber) will be
   adding a search interface to MediaGoblin!  A long running request!

 - Rodney Ewing (mentored by Aaron Williamson) will be working on
   making our user authentication system super flexible and
   pluginified with multiple new backends!  He's already making great
   progress!
   
The main problem we had this year is that (and really, I do mean this)
we had so many awesome applications this year that picking between
them was very tough.  And I can say this with some experience: I've
done mentoring for Summer of the Code in the past and I can say that
I've never seen so many amazing proposals at once.

One thing's for sure though: this summer is going to be awesome.  Go
go goblins!
